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by lr1970 3y ago
Ukraine was part of Russian Empire for about 350 years, since 1659 if I am not mistaken. Certainly, there is a lot of shared history and culture.
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by lr1970 3y ago
You can add Juan Guido in Venezuela (sorry if misspelled his name)
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by lr1970 3y ago
This is not a serious argument. By the same token, putin or comrade xi can do the same if they feel suicidal. There are controls in place (or at least on the paper) that prevent a crazy president from running amok with the nukes.
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by lr1970 3y ago
> What deeper integration would that have been? Boris Yeltsyn was proposing to Bill Clinton to admit Russia into NATO. This way Russian ambitions would be tamed and channeled into something more constructive.
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by lr1970 3y ago
> If the Mach team can pull off this whole "Zig as a cross-3D-API shader compiler" and make it work as smoothly as "Zig as a cross-compilation toolchain", then this would be pretty much the biggest thing in computer g
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by lr1970 3y ago
>Residents can trivially grind any project to a halt because controlled burns are practically impossible, given California's pollution standards, without these permits and exceptions from the state Air Resources Board. Do they reali
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by lr1970 3y ago
Yes, this is because it includes SQlite source (in C) that dwarfs the size of columnar storage extension (in Zig).
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by lr1970 3y ago
The biggest Intel's problem is that a lot of good people left over the previous years of shitty management. Pouring money into R&D certainly helps but with wrong people in key positions the efficiency of the investments will be low
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by lr1970 3y ago
We should have well defined mechanisms for sunsetting and destroying data.
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by lr1970 3y ago
Euler equation e^(ix) = cos(x) + i*sin(x) alone is worth more than Erdos did in his entire life. Euler laid foundations for complex numbers analysis. His other contributions have been already covered in this thread.
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by lr1970 3y ago
This is so sad. Russia is becoming North Korea.
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by lr1970 3y ago
The Maxwell equations are conventionally being taught and written as 4 equations for two 3 dimensional vectors instead of a single equation for a single anti-symmetric 4-dimensional tensor. Also, the tensor exaction is explicitly relativist
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by lr1970 3y ago
To specifically address concerns of the optimized builds LLVM backend will still be available as an optional dependency configured via Zig's build system. Until zig's own codegen is mature enough for optimized builds, LLVM can be
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by lr1970 3y ago
He said release 0.12 will happen soon.
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by lr1970 3y ago
> The marketplace coverage (or straight Medicare) Medicare is available only to 65+ y.o. people. You probably wanted to say Medicaid.
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by lr1970 3y ago
Threads are for when you COMPUTE a lot, while async/await are for when you WAIT a lot.
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by lr1970 3y ago
Don't know about Spain but in the US you can call Amazon customer support on phone. Amazon does not advertise the phone number but Google search returns it. Try googling for Amazon customer support phone number in Spain and call them.
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by lr1970 3y ago
Funny, a second (after hydrogen) most abundant element in the Universe is so hard to harvest here on Earth.
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by lr1970 3y ago
> I wonder why go the trouble of gutting them to put into a new case. two words -- power supply.
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by lr1970 3y ago
Plagiarism is a form of lying. Politicians are liars. No surprise that plagiarism in political circles is rampant. Quite often such MS and PhD thesis are written by "ghost writers" for a fee. Politicians are busy advancing their p
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by lr1970 3y ago
To the hypocrisy claim: OpenAI recently changed their terms for GPT models allowing military applications and AI safety people are all silent. If it is not hypocrisy than I do not know what hypocrisy is.
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by lr1970 3y ago
> So there is this tendency of social activists towards conformance and centralization in the direction of authoritarianism. But on the other side, total denial of any systemic social problems that results in increasing inequality leavin
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by lr1970 3y ago
A little secret is that the content rights holders negotiated draconian streaming contracts that are outright prohibitive to Netflix. Netflix is trying to do everything possible to hide the fact that their streaming library is small and sh
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by lr1970 3y ago
There is a free Polars user guide [0] as a part of Polars project. It was known as "polars-book" before it has been was in-tree [1]. [0] https://docs.pola.rs/user-guide/ [1] https://github.com&#x2F
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by lr1970 3y ago
> To be really pedantic, a $20,000 drone out of Yemen is 0.1% of Yemen GDP. Are you saying that entire Yemen's GDP is just $20M ? Does not seem plausible.
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by lr1970 3y ago
Article created in January 2022 reflecting on AoC 2021. Zig changed a lot since then.
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by lr1970 3y ago
> > Whatever happened to Boeing's "Engineering Excellence" ? > McDonnell Douglas happened [1]. > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas More details are in the book "Flying
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by lr1970 3y ago
> Most programmers shouldn't be writing their own lists, hash maps, b-trees, sort algorithms, etc. Or generally reinvent wheels. Of course one should not reinvent the wheels. But understanding tricks and idioms used in these algorit
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by lr1970 3y ago
The last commit in the repo of "Deep Learning from Scratch" was 5 years ago. It is hopelessly outdated. The field is changing very fast.
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by lr1970 3y ago
A Big missing part is the wave function and superposition principle that Classical Physics cannot emulate.The paper is at best a mathematical curiosity.

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